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Dear Team

I am from Zimbabwe and work for a Trust which support orphaned children in very remote areas of Zimbabwe. Previously our work was to crowd source funds and look for these orphans and pay their fees. The work has grown now to all the 10 provinces in ZImbabwe and we have constant support from the business community and they want us to tell the impact and able to monitor and evaluate the work we have been doing. I am tasked to set up an M&E department and so far we have developed an M&E plan and it was approved. Now we need to develop the project monitoring tools for education and development projects such as fees payment leadership training, we also managed to set up Clubs in all these schools were we teach them leadership and life skill training projects and this is why I am looking for assistance in developming Monitoring and Evaluation.

 

Regards

 

Bayiwayi Solomon

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Permalink Reply by John Packiaraj on March 25, 2014 at 16:41

Hi Bayiwayi Solomon,

Please develop a logframe (intervention logic - Activities, Output, Outcome and Impact together with Objectively verifiable indicators, means of verification, risks and assumptions.

Proceed to develop project monitoring frame work or ME calendar.

John

Permalink Reply by Martha Bragin on March 25, 2014 at 16:43

Dear Solomon

Please find the CPET which I have used in southern African very effectively. It is a community participatory method of monitoring evaluation and gets children and community families engaged in the process of measuring the usefulness and success of the program and allows for course correction. Let me know if this method works for you! Good luck! 

Martha 

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Martha Bragin said:

Dear Solomon

Please find the CPET which I have used in southern African very effectively. It is a community participatory method of monitoring evaluation and gets children and community families engaged in the process of measuring the usefulness and success of the program and allows for course correction. Let me know if this method works for you! Good luck! 

Martha 

Permalink Reply by RAVELOMAHARAVO ANDRE LEONARD on March 25, 2014 at 17:21

Dear Solomon,

I advise you to draw a table on MSExcel with: Activities,Indicators, Annual target, Annual budget,Quaterly target cumul, quaterly realisation,% realization, quarterly finance cumul, quarterly realization,% realization finance, gap, explanation of gap.

ANDRE

Madagascar

Martha Bragin said:

Dear Solomon

Please find the CPET which I have used in southern African very effectively. It is a community participatory method of monitoring evaluation and gets children and community families engaged in the process of measuring the usefulness and success of the program and allows for course correction. Let me know if this method works for you! Good luck! 

Martha 

Permalink Reply by susmita mukherjee on March 26, 2014 at 10:16

Dear Solomon

Happy to discuss your requirements further. I would also link you to our office in Harare; we have an M&E manager - Morris Charumbira - morris@restlessdevelopment.org

I would request you to shed some more light on what tools you already have. what are the elements of activities that your would like to monitor and the logical framework you may have for the project.

regards

Sushmita

Permalink Reply by bayiwayi Solomon on March 26, 2014 at 13:18

I have developed the logical framework for my projects with inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and the impact and developed indicators for each result. What i am interested in maybe would be a sample on how to frame it. most of the information I have it.

 

regards

 

bayiwayi Solomon
 
susmita mukherjee said:

Dear Solomon

Happy to discuss your requirements further. I would also link you to our office in Harare; we have an M&E manager - Morris Charumbira - morris@restlessdevelopment.org

I would request you to shed some more light on what tools you already have. what are the elements of activities that your would like to monitor and the logical framework you may have for the project.

regards

Sushmita

Permalink Reply by Ranjani K.Murthy on March 27, 2014 at 12:13

Dear Bayiwayi 

You may like to include gender and diversity indicators while monitoring, and  as Martha has said participatory methods of monitoring by children and participants

Vimala Ramachandran has used role plays of barriers to education and development of children which is followed by discussions that highlight areas for strengthening. I use stories on discrimination and then explore if there were any such experiences. 

Best 

Ranjani

  

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